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Amazon Prime Day is July 11-12, Here are Our Favorite Early Deals

Amazon Prime member-exclusive sales event is on July 11-12 We found some fantastic early deals to share with you. We’ll add to this post over the next few days as we see specially-priced things you might love. If you’re not already a member of Prime, learn about all the benefits of Prime membership and the…

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Amazon Prime is July 11-12 and Here are Our Favorite Early Deals

Amazon Prime member-exclusive sales event is on July 11-12 We found some fantastic early deals to share with you. We’ll add to this post over the next few days as we see specially-priced things you might love. If you’re not already a member of Prime, learn about all the benefits of Prime membership and the…

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Parenting Is Like Living in a Bowling Alley and We Are the Pins

Mom, I hate you. Mom, I don’t like how you breathe. Mom, stop interfering in my life. Mommy, I love to double infinity and beyond. Mommy, you will always be my best friend. Mommy, I hope I grow up to be just like you. All true statements from my three wonderful children. As the youngest…

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Five Stages of High School Graduation and College Drop-Off

Senior year of high school and the build-up to college drop-off can make one feel like Alice in Wonderland. Plopped into a strange world where nothing is as you knew it, and time is a riddle to be solved. In this confusing, alternate universe, you will find the five stages of senior year of high…

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My Teen Daughter Is Amazing, I Just Have No Idea Who She Is Anymore

I was looking up boarding schools that take middle schoolers last night. I was so smug before I had an actual teenager. I was sure I would let the angst roll right off me. You know what they say about plans. My daughter is amazing. I just have no idea who she is anymore. She…

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Paving His Own Path: A Mom Reflects on Raising a Son with Inattentive ADHD

My son was diagnosed with the inattentive subtype of ADHD in third grade, often describing his ADHD brain as an overstuffed garbage can the lid doesn’t stay on, with stuff falling out all over the floor. When he was diagnosed, I thought I understood ADHD — it was a disorder diagnosed mostly in boys who were…

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The Lesson My Seven-Year-Old Nephew Taught Me About Compassion

It’s hard to interact with my aging father sometimes. He can’t hear well, he can’t speak at times, and he is frequently confused. His mobility is limited, as he has had a progressive neurological disease for decades. Occasionally he will focus on one idea — a specific Rolling Stones song, for example — and cannot think about…

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I Am Bringing Back My Mother’s 80s List for Bored Kids

Before cell phones, before highly organized youth sports, and before the internet, there was time. Growing up in the late 80s, it was common for your mother to tell you to play. Of course, we always eventually found something to do. As I write this, it’s only a few weeks into summer vacation, and I’m thinking…

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Having a Sister I Never Knew About Makes Me Think Differently About Parenthood

I grew up with a beautiful, amazing mother. She was the type to search for caterpillars with you on an autumn day or surprise you with homemade popsicles on a hot summer afternoon. It was the 80s, and I spent long days running through the neighborhood with other kids. There were no cell phones. We were outside until dusk.…

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Teens Who Spent 14 Years Together Were Celebrated, Our Daughter Was Ostracized

I took one step onto her old grade school playground and immediately knew how awful this event would feel, both for my daughter and her father and me. As if being on crutches in a walking boot wasn’t bad enough, her dress wasn’t the “in” style. She had her father and me with her for…

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